Xcode 6.1 unavaliable

Hi Badlandz,

I have had the same problem, sort of.

I was able to update xcode via the App Store on my Mac Book Pro, and install it fresh on a new yosemite install on an xserve of all things. The problem seems to only manifest on 2008 My Mac Pro, which has probably never had a clean reinstall. Otherwise my setup is working properly. If this doesn't go away I am going to look for remnants of old xcode (eg stuff in the developer folder from pre-app store) and see if it makes a difference. Very frustrating.

I don't believe the item really is temporarily unavailable since I have been able to install on other Macs same OS, same network, same Apple ID.

Did you have any luck?

I paused the download as I was on a 4G hotspot and now I cannot download and I cannot use Xcode. Sure they don't have such problems in Cupertino.

I seem to have cracked this. I was trying to find where the app store caches its downloads, as it's no longer in ~Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore where it used to be in previous OS versions, so I got fed up and used Yosemite Cache Cleaner from northern softworks (demo version) to delete all my caches , i rebooted and when it came back i went into the app store was able to download it! Launched fine too.

Apple really needs to work on those error messages, there was nothing temporary about it!

Post if this fix works for you!

Thanks

Erik

In my case, I was getting this error from App Store -> Updates, when clicking on the Update button for Xcode. But once I opened Xcode page on the App Store and clicked the Update button the download started without any error messages and installed succesfully. Not sure whether this was just a coincidence or not.

Do not use all these 3rd parties cleaner, it will do more harm than good.

Hi!

Had same issue.

Downloaded and installed Xcode 6.1 manually from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=Xcode

Worked for me.

I did use a 3rd party cleaner and that didn't do anything, harm or good. I used the yosemite cache cleaner and had to select "deep clean" for it to remove the partially downloaded app. It's now happily downloading, I didn't see _Mattias_ post about manual download which may save me losing my old configuration / asset catalogues. The cache cleaner thing also has some other utils in it, seems a few apps that I had to remove with said 3rd party app cleaner have left things behind in my startup etc. I'll be registering my copy, I hear it's cold in Alaska. Would try the https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=Xcode route first though as this is a nuclear option.

Glad to hear it worked, 🙂

I should have mentioned that I too had to chose the deep clean option with cache cleaner.

I had tried a manual download while troubleshooting but Apple no longer make it available, instead they redirect one to the App Store from the dev centre downloads page.

What is this asset / download catalogue that you lost? I haven't noticed any negative side effects apart from one longer shutdown / startup cycle directly afterwards (when I assume the OS was rebuilding some of the other stuff that had been in the cache).

Thanks

Erik

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That sounds encouraging. I'm not sure what I've wiped out, was expecting consequences from trashes all those directories. Have liked your posts, this has been a big pain this week as I've had people sending me projects as part of a recruitment process and I couldn't open them.

Hi,

I too have had the same problem persisting for the past several days.

I tried the manual download method and it does not redirect me to the App Store.

I'm happily downloading it directly now.

Thanks! This did the trick.

For those of you who want to avoid using 3rd party cache cleaners, the command to run in Terminal is:

rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/com.apple.appstore"

Yes. I had this issue and I also downloaded Xcode 6.1 from developer site and installed manually. It worked fine. Thanks.